Thursday, March 16, 2006
Day 44 - The "Shadow Rocket" Combo
This morning (if you deem 2:45pm to be the morning) I woke up frustrated and pissed-off, feeling both overwhelmed by life and underwhelmed by my ability to succeed by its rules. Nothing new there. What was new was what I did about it. Instead of throwing on some clothes and trundling off to work to dick around online for an hour before hunkering down to assassinate members of my task list, I switched gears.
I sat. I meditated. I did a short 3-Body Workout. Then I tumbled down the basement steps to crank up Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary on the tiny speakers of the basement boom box and did two rounds of a 5-exericse Combat Conditioning mini-workout. Went from Hindu push-ups to Hindu squats to Atlas push-ups to V-ups to handstands, and back again. Then I got out my journal.
There's nothing like filling the space cleared by meditation with kick-ass RnR and balls-to-the-wall strength training. The energy it whips is stronger than even the most vile of Red Bull knock-offs, coffee, or even the dreaded Chai. And that energy can be used for something: clearing up your head problems.
My head problems (see above) weren't going to budge by burying them in work and tedium. In my workout clothes, still sweating, I attacked a legal pad with this week's issues, and basically wrote my way out them. I created action plans. Motivational phrases. Even random compliments to myself. Using the energy of the body to overcome the dreads-fears-frustrations of the mind: is that what we mean by integration?
I sat. I meditated. I did a short 3-Body Workout. Then I tumbled down the basement steps to crank up Wolf Parade's Apologies to the Queen Mary on the tiny speakers of the basement boom box and did two rounds of a 5-exericse Combat Conditioning mini-workout. Went from Hindu push-ups to Hindu squats to Atlas push-ups to V-ups to handstands, and back again. Then I got out my journal.
There's nothing like filling the space cleared by meditation with kick-ass RnR and balls-to-the-wall strength training. The energy it whips is stronger than even the most vile of Red Bull knock-offs, coffee, or even the dreaded Chai. And that energy can be used for something: clearing up your head problems.
My head problems (see above) weren't going to budge by burying them in work and tedium. In my workout clothes, still sweating, I attacked a legal pad with this week's issues, and basically wrote my way out them. I created action plans. Motivational phrases. Even random compliments to myself. Using the energy of the body to overcome the dreads-fears-frustrations of the mind: is that what we mean by integration?
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Awesome! Sounds like what I've been doing lately.
I've been drinking 2-4 cups of mate in the mornings for the past couple weeks--and trying to quit. I figured out that what I really want in the mornings is to breathe hard and get my heart pumping so that I can feel ALIVE. Mate works, but so does hindu squats. :)
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I've been drinking 2-4 cups of mate in the mornings for the past couple weeks--and trying to quit. I figured out that what I really want in the mornings is to breathe hard and get my heart pumping so that I can feel ALIVE. Mate works, but so does hindu squats. :)
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